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#hiatus #long time no post #has it really been that long

From Couch Potato To Fitness Buff: How I Learned To Love Exercise

I have become the type of person that used to mystify me. I … am a fitness fanatic.

That was certainly not the case a year and a half ago. Back then, like a lot of Americans, I was mostly sedentary (unless you count walking to meetings). Which is ironic, because, as a senior editor for NPR’s science, food and health team, it is literally my job to know better. But, with two small kids, a full-time job and recurring insomnia, I didn’t have the time or energy to work out. And I’m not going tell you how much I used to weigh, but it wasn’t healthy.

So what changed? For starters, I reframed what I thought of as exercise.

“The research does now show that basically all movement counts, and anything is better than nothing,” says Michelle Segar, a psychologist and director of the University of Michigan Sport, Health and Activity Research and Policy Center. She studies how we sustain healthy behaviors, and she says one big stumbling block for people is that they fail to take advantage of the exercise opportunities they can build into their daily lives, like taking the stairs or walking to work.

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An interesting read!

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Pettiness Cake

The following is from a binder of family recipes assembled by my great-aunt Alice sometime in the 1970s (I think). I hope you’ll understand why I felt obligated to share it.

Oscar’s $100 Cake

Sift:

1 cup sugar

2 cups cake flour

4 tablespoons cocoa

2 teaspoons soda

Pinch salt

Add:

1 cup mayonnaise

1 cup water

1 teaspoon vanilla

Bake in 9 x 13 pan in 375° oven.

(The story goes that a friend of Mother’s had had a marvelous chocolate cake while dining at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. She wrote to Oscar of the Waldorf to find out if he would share his recipe, and that she would be glad to pay for it, thinking it might be $15 or so. When she received the recipe, she also got a bill for $100. She paid the bill but decided that for that kind of money, she would certainly share the recipe with all her friends - just to “get even.”)

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The story behind this cake makes it extra delicious.

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A lot of websites are offering virtual fortunes this time of year.

For this one (hobonichi) my kanji for 2019 is 命 ‘life’

It also comes with a movie recommendation, for me it recommended movies like Toy Story where unexpected things come to life 😅

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Lovely! My result was 歌 ‘song’ and recommended movie was Sister Act which i appreciate.

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You know what I think is really cool about language (English in this case)? It’s the way you can express “I don’t know” without opening your mouth. All you have to do is hum a low note, a high note, then another lower note. The same goes for yes and no. Does anyone know what this is called?

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These are called vocables, a form of non-lexical utterance - that is, wordlike sounds that aren’t strictly words, have flexible meaning depending on context, and reflect the speakers emotional reaction to the context rather than stating something specific. They also include uh-oh! (that’s not good!), uh-huh and mm-hmm (yes), uhn-uhn (no), huh? (what?), huh… (oh, I see…), hmmn… (I wonder… / maybe…), awww! (that’s cute!), aww… (darn it…), um? (excuse me; that doesn’t seem right?), ugh and guh (expressions of alarm, disgust, or sympathy toward somebody else’s displeasure or distress), etc.

Every natural human language has at least a few vocables in it, and filler words like “um” and “erm” are also part of this overall class of utterances. Technically “vocable” itself refers to a wider category of utterances, but these types of sounds are the ones most frequently being referred to, when the word is used.

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Reblog if u just hummed all of these out loud as you read them

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Where to read manga online

Bilingual English-Japanese Manga

Bilingual Manga: Just a few titles with very few chapters but it’s a good place to try your hand at reading. I recommend Yotsubato: it’s fun, cute, good for beginners and there’s like a whole volume worth of chapters.

Manga Club: Global site with legal translated manga. Uses ticket system, so chapters could be either free for all, free for users or paid. Has slowly but steadily growing number of bilingual titles. Check out Chika’s Forest.

Free manga sites

ツイ４: various 4komas such as ハリネズミのハリー and ふしぎねこのきゅーちゃん. Very good site actually! Short bite-sized comics of various difficulty.

Ganma.jp: Lots of original works. Great variety of genres and art styles. Even though interface is quite chaotic, definitely worth a look. Tsubu Ganma has some 4komas.

Manga Z: out of print manga published with permission from authors. Lots of ‘retro’ manga. Reading online is free, pdf downloads are paid.

Pixiv: a well-known site where people publish their artworks, manga, novels and so on. Because of sheer amount of stuff here, you may want to look for something specific.

Some random individual works posted elsewhere

Ace Attorney 4koma and other fun stuff.

Fire Emblem Heroes 4koma

One Punch Man (original webcomic drawn by ONE himself)

Silver Kamuy: Golden Kamuy official parody with characters reimagined as old people plus some random original chapters

Popperakyuu: manga by Matsunaga Toyokazu (Castle of the Dragon, Bakune Young)

Online book stores. It’s a good idea to make an account on one of these for digital reading. Each one has an app that allows you to read downloaded books offline. Range of books they have is pretty much the same. Lots of manga freebies and some good limited time offers.

BookWalker: While global page only has translated manga and ranobe, Japanese page has all kind of books. Big downside is that some Japanese books are for domestic sale only (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻.

EbookJP: Japanese-only digital bookstore. Nice world-wide available app (ebiReader) with built-in store browser. Your best bet, hands down.

There are plenty of other Japanese-only bookstores like Booklive or Honto, but since their apps are region-locked I don’t recommend them unless you actually live in Japan.

Now, this should be more than enough for comfortable reading. But if you feel like browsing through some random websites looking for a perfect read, the list below is for you.

Innumerable amount of various manga sites. Mostly these sites are affiliated with various publishers or magazines, therefore may provide only partial access, like some introductory chapters and whatnot.

Pixiv Comics: this is where especially popular works from Pixiv end up when they get a proper release. Check out おじさまと猫.

NicoNico: Much like pixiv, a place where people can publish their creations.

XOY webtoons: This is a Japanese version of Korean Webtoon site from Naver.

Days Neo: site for young manga artist aiming to make their debut.

Mangahack: another place for young artists to share their work.

Kurage Bunch: original works. That’s where 極主夫道 is published!

Web-Ace.jp various works, here’s ‘I’m a spider, so what?’.

ComicWalker: lots of various original works, mostly free to read.

Comic Newtype. first chapters and latest chapters.

Morning-Afternoon-Evening: web comics and trial chapters.

Tonari no Young JUMP: trial chapters and one-shots. One Punch Man is published here.

Shounen Jump Plus: Trial chapters, one-shots and such.

Jump SQ: some trial chapters.

URA Sunday: first and last chapters. Here’s Reigen.

Pocket.Shonen magazine: trial chapters.

Web Sunday: trial chapters of works currently being serialized in Shounen Sunday.

Ganga Online: mostly trial chapters.

Sukima: same as aforementioned Manga club with the same ticket system, but Japanese.

Comic-Essay. manga based on personal experience: about pets, travel, hobbies and such.

Comic-Polaris. first and latest chapters.

Zenyon and Tatan. same publisher, first and latest chapters.

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i saw into the spiderverse today

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This is so dramatic

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Stealing wealth from hard workers, no wonder the bald eagle is our national bird.

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Ben Franklin didn't want the bald eagle as our national symbol since they so often do steal food.

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This is such an abstract type of comedy I don’t even know how to handle it

For some reason I read that last line as: "Ray grabbed his cup off the table, draining it as he stood up." I was confused because I thought, it seemed like a silly thing to do when faced with danger, unless he's that used to it? Then I went back and re-read it and was immediately disappointed.

#ikemen revolution #its been a long week and it's only tuesday #ray blackwell

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20 years, 7 generations, and 800 pokemon later and Oak still doesn’t know his grandsons name

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Professor Oak is staring Gary dead in the fucking face when he says this you know he knows exactly what he’s doing

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Word.

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i'm just gonna say...

there’s a right way to do unexpected villans

and a wrong way

the difference being subtle hints

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Turbo from Ralph is good and unexpected villian too and with good subtle hints as well.

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You can’t just make a character start being evil with no explanation or foreshadowing or any character hints whatsoever. It makes the viewer feel cheated.

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Honestly at this point I’m about ready to accept the theory about how the trolls were responsible for Hans’ sudden and out of nowhere change in demeanor.

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It feels like they just rewrote Hans’ character at the last minute because “well fuck, now that Elsa isn’t the villain anymore, we need an antagonist. eh, just throw that prince who’s been shown to be nothing but a nice guy under the bus for an ass pu- er, i mean shocking twist”

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What i thought tbh

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You know my opinion is that not all stories need a villain. A good example of this is Inside Out.

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y'all write your fucking fanfiction and love your weird cringey shit and draw your goofy terrible furry drawings or something who cares who gives a goddamn just do whatever weird thing makes you happy on this goddamn bitch of an earth who caressss

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You do you man! <3